Assam : Agriculture official arrested in graft case
Guwahati, Oct 29 (IBNS) : An official of the agriculture department was caught red handed by police while he allegedly taken bribe from a person in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district on Sunday.
According to the reports, the Dibrugarh police had caught an Agriculture Extension Officer (AEO) named Akmal Ali re handed while he allegedly taking bribe of Rs 10,000 from a beneficiary for providing a government aided tractor at his residence.
“The beneficiary informed us about the matter and we had arrested the official red handed from his residence,” a top police official said.
Later, the arrested agriculture official was produced before a local court.
Assam police has arrested over 150 government officials from different part of the state in graft cases in past 17 months.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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